What a bunch of gutless cowards. No wonder Sen. Cruz stands out as a leader. They have only themselves to blame for his success.
The Republican Party will not win elections without the conservative base, so who is really responsible for its demise?
And that is their great dilemma. They want us to go away (a few are rooting for Obama to make us look clueless and toothless) but we now are considered more powerful than their business (monied/lobbyists) constituency, and they are well aware that we will remove them ASAP unless they move to the right.
It's astonishing that none of the Republicans are hammering the Dems on the shutdown now, since the House Republicans offered full funding of ObamaCare, contingent upon all exceptions and waivers being stripped out.
It's the most effective arrow in the GOP quiver, but they refuse to touch it. That reeks of elitist complicity.